Re: Cycle Counting

Al

This answer is for BPCS 4.05 CD

Inv Menu Option 17 takes you to the Cycle Count menu.
Then Option 14 allows you to print "some" items to be cycle counted.
This option uses a Cycle Count Frequency field in Item Master
and the Last Date Counted in the ILI file
to produce a list of items to be counted.
It also "remembers" the highest ITH Seq# for this Item#.
Cycle CountMenu Option 1 is where you enter what you counted.
There is a system parameter that answers the question:
1 step or 2 step cycle counting?

1-step will look at count entered compared to onhand on ILI
and do an adjustment "right away" for the difference.
It also shows any "new"' ITH records since CC worksheet printed.

2-step will build a file that has to be reviewed and then a second data entry
process actually makes the adjustment (INV500).

Try it in your test environment...

--
Peace
Jim Barry
Belchertown, MA

---- Al Mac <macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> We have not been using BPCS cycle counting but are considering starting 
> using it.  I have a question whether it functions similarly to physical 
> inventory.
> 
> In BPCS Physical Inventory we get a list of items and warehouse locations 
> where BPCS thinks there is inventory on-hand or very recent activity, for 
> all the warehouses that we choose to do a physical on.  We count what is 
> there, then key in count found there.  We also have the option of using 
> handwritten tags to record inventory that is in locations or for items that 
> BPCS did not know about, and did not generate a tag on.  BPCS has inventory 
> transaction records showing difference between what was previously on-hand 
> and what the count was.
> 
> When the count is identical to what was in on-hand, there is a ZERO 
> transaction difference entry in inventory history showing the fact that we 
> counted that inventory, and what we counted showed that what was already in 
> BPCS on-hand was 100% correct.
> 
> Does the BPCS cycle counting system (menu INV option 17) have the same 
> feature?
> 
> According to the documentation ( SSARUN03 in BPCSDOC ) it has the feature 
> of us keying in our count, BPCS calculating difference, and showing in the 
> history what the discrepancy was, but I am not seeing any reference to 
> anything going into inventory history when there is no discrepancy.
> 
> I think it would be useful if we could show for example
> We did 2,000 cycle counts of which 200 of them involved discrepancies, so 
> we would see over time what % of cycle counts confirmed our inventory was 
> correct, and what % needed a correction.
> 
> -
> Al Macintyre
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